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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Allow navigation to groups directly from the groups management page

As a user while I am managing groups I would like the ability to navigate to a group so that I don't have to click Search->Groups->Type the Group name->Then select the group
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Needs more information

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for GitLab integration

We are working with our business partners for Concert Proof of concepts/values. One of our partners (TCS) is looking for GitLab integration. GitLab is one of the key systems that many of their customers use. This integration is required to demonst...
2 months ago in Concert 0 Planned for future release

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration